A harrowing but meticulously observed look at teenage lives in the era
prior to the lives in the early 1990’s\, “Super Dark Times” marks the feat
ure debut of gifted director Kevin Phillips\, whose critically acclaimed 2
015 short film “Too Cool For School” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival
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Zach (Owen Campbell) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) are best friends g
rowing up in a leafy Upstate New York suburb in the 1990s\, where teenage
life revolves around hanging out\, looking for kicks\, navigating first lo
ve and vying for popularity.

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When a traumatic incident drives a we
dge between the previously inseparable pai
r\, their youthful innocence abruptly vanishes. Each young man processes t
he tragedy in his own way\, until circumstances grow increasingly complex
and spiral into violence. Phillips dives headlong into the confusion of te
enage life\, creating an evocative atmosphere out of the murky boundaries
between adolescence and adulthood\, courage and fear\, and good and evil.<
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